Friday, June 20, 2008

BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz: Special Palate-Cleansing Edition

Wow, what a week! There was excitement, there was controversy, there was anger, and then, yesterday, there was treacle. I actually feel hung over from it all. (And it has nothing to do with all the drinks I had last night either.) Well, one of the best ways to shake a hangover is to go for a hard ride, and one of the best ways to clear your head is with a little mental exercise. So I've prepared a quiz. Read the question, think, and click on your answer. If you're right, you'll see the item. If you're wrong, you'll get hit with a blast from the Slayer siren. Thanks, good luck, and have a good weekend.

As a former bike mechanic, and former New York resident, I love this site.

Making fun of people's goofy bike setups and corny looking outfits is great, but I think you need to explore critiqueing goony riding techniques. You know, the "chickenheads" that bob their head and torsos. People that ride really bowlegged. "Woodchoppers". "Gerbils spinning off the wheel" Locked elbow riders.

If Snobby's latest sexual conquest is reading these comments, please break up with him, immediately, and in the meanest way possible. While we do not mind a softie post every now and then to appeal to the ladies out there, it's been going on for almost a week now. It's not that we don't want the best for the snob, because we do, just not at the blog's expense. If you think a full break up is a little too much, at least piss him off real good. Thanks for helping us out,the fans

I see what's happening here. RTMS is in love, which means a very special vacation/wedding post is soon to follow. And we all know a "special episode" wouldn't be complete without Prolly 360ing over the alpaca pen.

for the first time, I watched the Rain City Fix video. I think it is a parody. It has to be. How can this guy talk about loving the bikes because they are aesthetically pleasing, when he himself dresses like a homeless clown?

I am absolutely aware of BSNYC's claim, and trust me - there's nothing I like more than wry sarcasm. However, a given comment ceases to qualify as such when it gets repeated in nearly every comments section for a few weeks.

"Jumping the shark" was discussed on a recent episode of CSI, and thus has jumped the shark. But I agree with Smartypants, arguing about BSNYC jumping the shark has jumped the shark. Enough already, move on with your lives.

I think the bigger fear is doing a Letterman: be funny for a couple of years, then re-hash the same tired shit over and over again until you get a quadruple heart bypass, which, in the case of BSNYC, could take >40 years.

Thank god we're back to bitter, yesterday's, "...come on everybody, come together and love your brother, right now" shite was making me want to rent an Escalade and drive in bike lanes ($54 fine) while blasting Lemmy Kilmeister's "Ace of Spades". True story: Lemmy and I have the same dentist.

Pushing up the ante, I know you've got to see me,Read 'em and weep, the dead man's hand again,I see it in your eyes, take one look and die,

Look, if a loyal reader is going to spot a clown bike like that springer with a disc wheel, then the photo should include a well applied "seal of disapproval" sticker.

Commentor from Whenever-Why don't you start a blog about how dumb the commentors on this blog are? You can take our comments and make fun of them. You can also take some of Snobby's quotes and make fun of them. It seems that we've created a little blog subculture here, and that you don't like it one bit. It's like we've taken the art of blogging and turned it into some kind of joke, and that irritates you to no end, since you have seen the light and know the righteous way. So stop being such a fucking amateur and take us on like you were born with a pair: start a blog. No wait, that sounds familiar. Oh, I remember now, it's what Snob did. He had hatred, he had balls, and he had a vision. But instead of getting on pro-fixter blogs and talking anonymous shit, he got off his ass and started a movement. You, on the other hand, are just a lazy hater, you'll never make a difference, you'll just be an annoyance.

That quiz was awesome...the last one took a little evaluation but the only logical answer was "Fabulous" because that bike embodies the spirit of a true cyclist. Comfort, gearing, low rolling resistance, self sufficient, room for cargo, and plenty of lighting to ride safely during the other half of the day...the only thing it needs now is some fenders

...and while we're back to bitter, let's do something about Richard Sachs, my nomination for 2008 "Bike Twat of the Year".

His self-financed documentary "Imperfection is Perfection" took nine months to film, during which time Sachs brazed one fork tube while wearing red Wayfarers, and waxed ON and ON and ON about his life philosophy. If Nietzsche and Plato were alive today, they would likely be brazing overpriced custom steel frames in shack in Seattle.

wow snob, so I think the mild nature of the blog this week has made the commenter's turn on each other... but in the spirit of the moment we know that commiecanuk can't be real because Canada is a fantasy place where there is no violence and the Navy consists of three kayaks and a leaky row boat. Its gotta be a myth.

...i get a warm fuzzy knowing you & lemmy "ace of spades" kilmeister share a dentist...but that's gotta be one traumatized doc..."nurse, mister kilmeister will be in today @ 2:00pm...please prepare a tank of nitrous @ 1:30pm...what ???...no, you twit, that's for me"...

...but while letterman is no doubt a case of "same story---different day", (which allows for "the viewing audience" to have their own little 'once a day' warm fuzzy), lets not sell the man short......that was a quintuple (5, count 'em, 5) by-pass the man had...true story: letterman & i share the same number of the by-pass thingies...

The guy that doesnt live in the city, doesnt ride his bike for a living, (which would ruin it for me), and at the age of 33, up and decides to build and ride fixie.

Im not new to 1 gear cycling, been ridding single speed ATB for 10yrs, just got my first 29er because lets face it, I live in Florida, and anything more than a ridgid 29er is overkill here.

I actually have ALOT of bikes, all single speed, the ATB, a fixed cruiser that I ride the 'hood w/ my kids, a small frame mountain bike w/ bmx parts that is now essentialy a 26" bmx that I ride on the track w/ my son, and the lugged, beat to shit, 1980 Nishiki I just built up. And of course, 3 or 4 frames that are not built up.

Im kidding, I think its totally cool you guys do something you love, but you guys shouldnt assume that everytime someone wants to try fixie, that they are trying to take something away from you.

Dont be so self absorbed to think anyone that wants to ride fixie is trying to be like you.

Most of us are NOT.

Me, I just love to build and ride bikes, and enjoy having choices when I go out to the garage.

I dont wear long pants rolled up, or sleeveless shirts, or a funky hat. I dont do skid stops or bar spins, (although I am NOT running brakes).

In short, Im not trying to steal your culture, honestly, I could give a fuck about your culture, I built a fixie cause I wanted to, and guess what, when I rode it, I liked it.

Something tells me you all can relate to that.

So hate if you wish, but I cant understand you even giving a shit. Do your thing, Ill do mine, the sun will come up tomorrow and the better half of the poulation will be on bikes, any kind bike, any kind of person.

Or maybe you would prefer us posers just drive cars?

P.S.If you are younger than 33, I was riding fixed before you were....its called a tricycle bitches!

Maybe I need to clarify, at 2 or 3 years old we all ride a tricycle.......its a fixed setup.

So I, as did most, had / rode my first "fixie" as a very young child, so its not really something you guys have the vip, "insiders" hookup to.

But hey if it makes you feel elite in some way....

Anyway, I think fixed is great because its more like playing a sport or playing an instrument. You have to make everything happen, you have to play chess with everyone else, anticipating the movement of every car, bike, and person within 100 feet of you. Its just fun.

Some bikes now a days with auto shifting and shit like that is like playing a video game.Its just very out of touch with the whole experience.

Well, Im preaching to the choir now, and I bet you are all ready for me to STFU. So..........

I guess being a sarcastic prick makes you hard? You guys think you are hard, but read all of posts on these blogs, you are all the same guy, sharing one attitude and one frame of mind. So I guess that makes you all very hard sheep.

No room for someone whos not another sheep, cause it takes you out of your comfort zone.

This is why you guys are such a joke, pissed of when posers want to be like you, pricks to guys that arent like you. Its like you are all perpetual teenagers in your clique skipping school and hanging out behind the LBS, too cool for anyone else.

Well, I get the idea, its become obvious that Im not missing a thing if I dont read or post here.

Jeez, Kevin, it doesn't cost anything to start your own blog. You clearly have far too much wisdom to fit in the comments section of someone else's blog. Surely you have better things to do than hang around here making fun of all us dull posers! You are making some of us feel bad just because we pay good money for Brooks saddles and put them on our fixed gear bikes. I was thinking of getting some Velocity rims for my next wheel building session, but now that I know you would not approve, I think I'll just get some mavics or something. Killjoy. I hope you are happy.

"I know him pretty well and he's a solid dude and has been riding trikes for a long, long time for whatever thats worth...AND his asshole has been that way for a long, long time for whatever thats worth."

Hey Frills, If you go bananas for "smooth-legged, friction-free roadie lust" what would you do for a 4/3 Ripcurl Full length rubber suit///.And BGW I 'll be your lead domsetique and stand by with the paddles when you and Frills set upon each other. Never can be too safe... just watchin

No malice intended, all that stuff is good stuff, I have some of it on my other bikes.

It wasnt meant to be a review of whats appropriate for FG bikes.Im certainly not qualified to say what is or isnt.

Just saying it doesnt seem to make sense for a bike that gets left out for anyone to see / swipe / trash.

And whats with the sarcasm schtick? (and thats what it is, SCHTICK). Are they issuing it with every track cog and lockring? Or do you guys think that somehow you cant be a "real"fixed gear cyclist without it?Most of you guys are probably regular joes, but turn up the sarcasm when youre on this blog or around othe cyclysts. Talk about being a poser.

That new Super Record will work with the Super Record I've been running for 20 years, right? Becuase I'd like to go from 12 speeds to 22 just by getting a new freewheel and brake levers. The new Super Record come in non-aero, right? I don't want to have to re-tape my bars.

Does posting 1 copy of a comment you posted on another blog count as "hardening up" and starting your own blog? Let's see some material on your own "blog" that is independent of your feelings towards this blog. THAT makes YOU a POSER. You thought you were gonna hit a fucking grand slam with that one didn't ya? Set the world on fire? You only fanned the flames on a fire that has been burning for far longer than your contribution to the blog world. Why don't you take in a softball game with the kid, bring a donut to sit on and ride your fixed gear experiment. Leave the sarcasm to those who appreciate it.

You guys are great, if nothing else I lmao everytime I read these comments. Its like being in a locker room or at a card game where eneryone is just unmercifully busting each others balls. Good stuff.

Still think your fixster NYC sarcastic attitudes are a SCHTICK though. Something you saw guys you looked up to doing and now you do it like a good little boy.Like kids in school. Trying to be like the cool older kids were.

But hey, I guess we all do that in whatever walk of life we find ourselves in.

Anyway, not really trying to fight with you jackies, I find some of BSNY's threads interesting, and thought I would make a comment or two.

You guys have been stereotypical to say the least, but you probably are so wrapped up in the schtick that you think thats a good thing, just like dumbass college kids think doing stupid shit in front of other dumbass college kids is a good thing.

Ill close in saying, you guys ride bikes, that deserves respect, so Ill never run my mouth about that, its just the schtick thats so rediculous.

Im sure you are all stand up guys, once you get past it, just like Im a standup guy once you get past that Im a pansy, candy ass, spandex wearin, yuppie wanna be on a pista. LOL

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About Me

While I love cycling and embrace it in all its forms, I'm also extremely critical. So I present to you my venting for your amusement and betterment. No offense meant to the critiqued. Always keep riding!